The June Classical Reviews are now available on Music on the Web (UK) http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/classrev/jun99/jun99fnt1.html Highlights include: # the first CD release of Haitink conducting Walton's First Symphony - why have EMI been hiding this performance? It is startlingly different and neatly complements the highly regarded recording by Previn from 1967 (currently unavailable in the UK) # Premiere recordings of symphonies by Arthur Butterworth and Ruth Gipps - candidate for CD of the year # some rediscovered violin works by Elgar # a superb collection of English songs from Hyperion # Dutoit giving us ROSSINI/RESPIGHI La Boutique Fantasque and RESPIGHI Impressioni Brasiliane # Rosenkavalier highlights in English from Chandos also new is an article from David Wright on Roger Sessions http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/sessions.index.htm and extracts from the autobiography of Reginald Smith Brindle http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/brindle/autobio25.htm Len Mullenger Music on the Web (UK) http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/music.htm